Books and Resources to Help You Stay on Track, Reach Your Goals, and Grow Your Business.

Books and Resources to Help You Stay on Track, Reach Your Goals, and Grow Your Business.

Books and Resources to Help You Stay on Track, Reach Your Goals, and Grow Your Business.

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Business Planning Books
Business Planning Books
So you want to start a business, grow your business, or maintain your business's strength. Here are some great tools to get you from point A to B effortlessly with just a little bit of planning and organizing.
How are you going about setting up your business?
What's your plan?
Are you sticking by it?

It's incredibly helpful to have a helping hand when planning anything, whether you're planning for college, planning for a move, or planning a family. These books can be your counselor and guide with the proper determination, and make your business goals a reality.


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Focal
By Brian Tracy
Focal Point is author and motivational speaker Brian Tracy's latest guide to professional and personal development. Combining the basic principles of career success and life balance he has advocated in the past with anecdotes for inspiration, the book proposes a unified approach to simultaneously achieving improvement at work and at home.


 
 
How
By Elizabeth Cogswell Baskin
Do women really run their businesses differently than men? Yes! They do it by trusting their intuition, focusing on relationships, and putting more emphasis on life balance. In this book, successful entrepreneur Elizabeth Cogswell Baskin gives you the true, nitty-gritty details of what it really means to start and run a business like a girl, including:
  • The Labor Pains of a Successful Startup - Summoning the strength, endurance, and positive thinking necessary to breathe life into a new business.
  • Grab Your Partner and Do-Si-Do - Why a partnership might-or might not-be right for you.
  • How to Be the Boss Without Being a Bitch - Maintaining your authority while building supportive relationships with your team.
  • What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Stronger - Learn how others survived tough times-from financial woes to staff turnover.


 
 
Hurdle
A step-by-step guide to create a thorough, concrete and concise business plan.andnbsp; Now you can get it done, and get it done yourself, too, without spending thousands on CPA or MBA consulting.andnbsp; This no nonsense book takes the mystery out of the process, eliminates the jargon and buzzwords, and guides you - step by step.


 
 
Inc.
Inc. Yourself is the longest-selling business book in continuous print in the history of trade publishing, with more than 500,000 copies sold since 1977. This andquot;entrepreneurial classicandquot; (CNBC) is now completely revised and updated-and available in a lower-priced paperback-to help new and recent entrepreneurs.andnbsp;


 
 
Inside
By Tom Connellan

Now, the principles that drive the culture and phenomenal success of Disney are disclosed in this fun, easy-to-read book. Based on interviews and discussions with past and present Disney employees, it reveals seven key lessons that can be applied in any company and provides powerful examples that will help employees at any level become more customer focused.



 
 
Ladies
By Victoria Colligan, Beth Schoenfeldt, Amy Swift
Ladies Who Launch is the first company to define the feminine approach to launching a business and to make the connection between starting a business and bringing creativity into your life with self-esteem and happiness.andnbsp; The nationally acclaimed Ladies Who Launch program has enabled thousands of women across the country to break out of 9-5 and thrive in entrepreneurial enterprises that reflect their true passions, skills, and desires.andnbsp; Located in more than 40 cities in the United States, the Ladies Who Launch incubators andndash; workshops that give women the support and encouragement they need to embark on making their dreams reality andndash; have inspired women to start businesses, grow existing companies, and tap into their creativity to develop essential services and products and enjoy the lifestyle of their dreams while doing it.


 
 
Make
By Robin Fisher Roffer
One of Americaandrsquo;s leading brand strategists shares her step-by-step program for creating an unforgettable identity in todayandrsquo;s marketplace.andnbsp; For any woman who has ever gone to work in the morning and thought andquot;there must be more,andquot; branding expert Robin Fisher Roffer reveals the eight surefire steps for developing a unique, personal brand strategy for success by identifying your extraordinary attributes, thinking about your values and passions, and learning how to use them to build a successful and fulfilling professional life. Whether youandrsquo;re starting out in the workforce, beginning your own business, changing careers, or tying to make it in the corporate world, Roffer will help you to uncover a focused direction for your career that celebrates you.


 
 
Missed
From financial expert Douglas R. Andrew comes an extraordinary book that challenges the most basic and fundamental concepts of personal investing in a user-friendly format. In the 30 years Douglas R. Andrew has worked as a successful financial analyst, lecturer, and retirement consultant, he has routinely questioned and challenged the accepted tenets of personal finance.


 
 
Patrick
This four-book set brings together Patrick Lencioniandrsquo;s unique and best-selling leadership fables: The Five Temptations of a CEO, The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, and Death by Meeting.


 
 
Real
By Carla Cross
This business planning guide contains more than 25 worksheets and checklists to organize and track performance. It also includes three sample business plans for the novice, established agent and top producer. You will also find templates and work sheets that will assist agents with formulating their own business plan. 50 creative promotional tactics from successful agents across the nation are also provided.


 
 
Retire
By Robert T. Kiyosaki (Author) and Sharon L. Lechter
In this new book, the fifth in the Rich Dad series, financial guru Robert Kiyosaki provides practical insight on how to put together a financial plan which will not only make you prosperous, but will also allow you to map out the freedom to choose your own retirement age.


 
 
Rich
By Robert T. Kiyosaki
Personal-finance author and lecturer Robert T. Kiyosaki developed his unique economic perspective from two very different influences--his two fathers. One father (Robert's real father) was a highly educated man, but fiscally poor. The other father was the father of Robert's best friend--the Dad who was an eighth grade dropout who became a self-made multi-millionaire. The lifelong monetary problems experienced by his andquot;poor dadandquot; pounded home the counterpoint communicated by his andquot;rich dad.andquot; Taking that message to heart, Kiyosaki was able to retire at 47. RICH DAD, POOR DAD, written with consultant and CPA Sharon L. Lechter lays out Kiyosaki's philosophy behind his relationship with money.


 
 
Starting
By Mark Nash
This is your resource book for pre- and post-license real estate sales agent information.andnbsp; Nash's Starting and Succeeding in Real Estate is a step-by-step guide is for new agents or anyone considering a career in residential real estate sales, and will answer your basic questions, provide definitions, and help you plan your real estate sales business.


 
 
The
By Stephanie Frank
ImagineYOU as a millionaire in your own business. Look through the eyes of The Accidental Millionaire, Stephanie Frank, as she takes you on a journey of triumph and tears, laughter and loss while building not one but two multi-million dollar service businesses. Read and learn as she gives you the insider scoop  the strategies, secrets and truth for what it REALLY takes to achieve success, make the right decisions, break through barriers and become the powerful leader of your life. You will laugh, you will cry  but most of all, you will be inspired to take action!


 
 
The
From Publishers Weekly:
Kawasaki (Rules for Revolutionaries) draws upon his dual background as an evangelist for Apple's Macintosh computer and as a Silicon Valley venture capitalist in this how-to for launching any type of business project. Each chapter begins with andquot;GISTandquot; (andquot;great ideas for starting thingsandquot;), covering a variety of facets to consider, from identifying your customer base and writing a business plan to establishing partnerships and building brand identity. Minichapters zero in on particular jobs that will need doing, while FAQ sections address the questions readers are most likely to have


 
 
The
By Brad DeHaven
Brad's message to the people is simple: No one can pay you what you're worth!andnbsp; Only you can.

Our society is witnessing an explosion in non-conventional ways to answer the basic economic question, andquot;How do I make a good living?andquot;

The next ten years will reveal a tidal-wave of opportunities through technology in home-managed professions.andnbsp; You can watch it happen around you, or use this book and learn how to participate and profit.


 
 
The
By Scott E. Page
The Difference is about how we think in groups--and how our collective wisdom exceeds the sum of its parts. Why can teams of people find better solutions than brilliant individuals working alone? And why are the best group decisions and predictions those that draw upon the very qualities that make each of us unique? The answers lie in diversity--not what we look like outside, but what we look like within, our distinct tools and abilities.


 
 
The
By Seth Godin
Yet another easily digestible social marketplace commentary from the blogger/author who penned Purple Cow and Small is the New Big, Godin prescribes a cleverly counter-intuitive way to approach one's potential for success. Smart, honest, and refreshingly free of self-help posturing, this primer on winning-through-quitting is at once motivational and comically indifferent, making the lofty goal of andquot;becoming the best in the worldandquot; an achievable proposition-all you need is to andquot;start doing some quitting.andquot; The secret to andquot;strategic quittingandquot; is seeking, understanding and embracing andquot;the Dip,andquot; andquot;the long slog between starting and masteryandquot; in which those without the determination or will find themselves burning out. As such, Godin demonstrates how to identify and quit your andquot;Cul-de-Sacandquot; and andquot;Cliffandquot; situations, in which no amount of work will lead to success. Godin provides tips for finding your Dip, taking advantage of it and becoming one of the few (inevitably valuable) players to emerge on the other side; he also provides guidelines for quitting with confidence. Quick, hilarious and happily irreverent, Godin's truth-that andquot;we fail when we get distracted by tasks we don't have the guts to quitandquot;-makes excellent sense of an often-difficult career move.


 
 
The
This set brings together all three of Patrick Lencioniandrsquo;s successful leadership fables: The Five Temptations of a CEO, The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive, and The Five Dysfunctions of a Team. Each book combines an engaging fictional story with insightful analysis to address some of the major obstacles facing leaders today.andnbsp;


 
 
The
By Loral Langemeier

There are only two things millionaires have that you donandrsquo;t: wealth and the knowledge to build wealth. But thatandrsquo;s all about to change. Thanks to andldquo;Millionaire Makerandrdquo; Loral Langemeier, you can develop the same financial intelligence that millionaires use to create, grow, and sustain their fortunes.andnbsp; Regardless of your incomeandmdash;and in as little as one yearandmdash;the exclusive wealth-building method in The Millionaire Maker can have you generating enough money to

  • Quit your job and start doing the things you love
  • Control and then eliminate your debt no matter how much you owe
  • Live your life on your scheduleandmdash;instead of your employerandrsquo;s


 
 
The
By Thomas J. Stanley, William D. Danko
How can you join the ranks of America's wealthy (defined as people whose net worth is over one million dollars)? It's easy, say doctors Stanley and Danko, who have spent the last 20 years interviewing members of this elite club: you just have to follow seven simple rules. The first rule is, always live well below your means. The last rule is, choose your occupation wisely. You'll have to buy the book to find out the other five. It's only fair.


 
 
The
By Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Les Hewitt
This book reveals the proven techniques thousands of people have used to attain all of the money they wanted while living healthy, happy and balanced lives. The Power of Focus, the new blockbuster from the coauthors of the bestselling Chicken Soup for the Soul, is a practical no-nonsense guide that shows readers how to reach their business, personal and financial goals without getting burned out in the process.


 
 
Your
By Dirk Zeller
A career in real estate offers endless opportunities, the freedom of flexible hours, and the potential to earn fabulous amounts of money. But to reach your goals you need to be prepared. Before you dive in, you must learn everything you can and discover the edge that will take you to the top. Inside, experienced and top-notch real estate professional Dirk Zeller presents the secrets to success that will allow you to excel from day one. Full of practical answers and step-by-step solutions to the field's most common obstacles and challenges, Your First Year in Real Estate will help you build a solid foundation for a lifetime of real estate success.


 
 
Branding
By Cheri Alguire, Dawn Andrews, Julie Bartolome, Jane Lee Williams, Kim Lysik Di Santi, Mary Ellen Merrigan, Miriam Reiss, Marilyn Schwader and Judy Winslow
US $14.95